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A small fence separates densely populated Tijuana, Mexico, right, from the United States in the Border Patrols San Diego Sector. Construction is underway to extend a secondary fence over the top of this hill and eventually to the Pacific Ocean …

Betsy Southerland knew something was wrong the moment she walked into her office at the Environmental Protection Agency. It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in April and already, her team was waiting at her door, computer printouts in hand …

Chris Doucouliagos, Deakin University A world where a few people have most of the wealth motivates others who are poor to strive to earn more. And when they do, they’ll invest in businesses and other areas of the economy. That’s …

Trump with FBI Director Christopher Wray on Dec. 15, 2017. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Douglas M. Charles, Pennsylvania State University President Donald Trump’s attacks on the FBI may have reached a climax. In an apparent attempt to discredit Robert Mueller’s Russia …

Julia Peetz, University of Surrey People like to argue that there is too much performance in politics – that especially in the era of Donald Trump, political coverage is fixated on personality at the expense of policy. Hillary Clinton, for …

Kevin Johnson, University of California, Davis Which “Dreamers” will be given legal recourse to stay in the U.S., and which ones will be left out? This is the central question surrounding current debate in Washington over a group of undocumented …

Having a bullhorn is nice, but workers need more to elevate their voices. AP Photo/David Goldman) Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management Over 200 CEOs have said they will raise wages or give bonuses as a result of the …

Basima Sisemore, University of California, Berkeley and Rhonda Itaoui, Western Sydney University On Jan. 19, a year after President Donald Trump’s first travel ban was issued, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments against the latest third version signed by …

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber Benjamin J. Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara Breaking with long-standing tradition, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin endorsed the weakening of the dollar as “good” for the United States. Speaking during a panel at the World Economic …

Protesting the Trump administration’s decision in Bethlehem. EPA/Abed Al Hashlamoun Anne Irfan, University of Sussex The Trump administration has announced that it will drastically cut its donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near …

A day after Donald Trump met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, he told lawmakers the U.S. should have more immigrants from places like Norway and not “shithole” countries like Haiti. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Henry Giroux, McMaster University George …

Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham A week after the release of a book depicting him as not intelligent enough and not mentally fit to be trusted as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump has done it again. On the same day he cancelled …

Jennifer Victor, George Mason University Government shutdowns are rare. This one is unique because the U.S. has never before experienced a shutdown under a unified government, a time when the White House and Congress are controlled by the same party …

Check out these amazing images from the 2018 Women’s March. Which took place across America and the world. In New York, women gather by the thousands for #WomensMarch2018 https://t.co/CVhpwEsjQh pic.twitter.com/XtbVOuRRBI — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) January 20, 2018 #WomensMarch2018 #WomensMarchNYC …

Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University Anyone looking for a visual representation of Donald Trump’s first year in office need only behold Time magazine’s cover marking the anniversary. Composed by artist Edel Rodriguez, it depicts Trump as a furious, bellowing mouth, …

Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University The federal government is on the brink of shutting down for the first time in a little more than four years after Republicans and Democrats appeared unable to agree on a last-minute deal to keep …

Amy Hsin, City University of New York Earlier this month, hopes were high that a bipartisan deal could be reached to resolve the fate of the “Dreamers,” the millions of undocumented youth who were brought to the U.S. as children …

Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com Christoph Siemroth, University of Essex Donald Trump has been under constant fire from critics since he began his campaign in the summer of 2015, and his presidency has so far been perhaps the most chaotic and bizarre in …

Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences How often do you, outside the requirements of an assignment, ponder things like the workings of a distant star, the innards of your phone camera, or …

Steven Pressman, Colorado State University President Donald Trump heralded his new tax plan as relief for the middle class, revenue-neutral …

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Promote and progressive values and ideas. It's really is that simple. Corporate and big money interests have stolen our political parties and government away from us. The only people we have left is to organize on the grassroots level, without the assistance of the Democratic Party. We Are Bernie is designed to bring progressives together, whether they call themselves Democratic Socialists, members of the Green Party, or Fight For 15, we try and help them organize and take action both online and in the real world. We will constantly strive to register our users to vote and educate them on the systematic corruption of our republic.